Archive for the 'Rape and Sexual Assault' Category
Federal officials rescued 52 children and arrested nearly 700 people over the last three days in a nationwide crackdown on child prostitution.
Almost 1,600 agents and officers took part in the raids, which followed investigations in 36 cities, according to the FBI, local law enforcement agencies and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Included [...]
Over the past few years, health workers in Malawi have noticed an unforeseen consequence of the availability of free antiretrovirals: more rape victims are showing up in hospitals.
Since 2005, when the Global Fund began providing AIDS drugs to the country, word has been spreading that Post Exposure Prophylaxis, a 30-day preventative combination of the medication, [...]
Hadassah-University Medical Center in Ein Kerem officially opened Jerusalem’s first center for the treatment of sexual abuse and domestic violence on Tuesday, aimed at easing the trauma for victims of rape, sexual assault or related violence during the after-care process.
According to Dr. Sagit Arbel-Alon, director of the new Bat Ami Center, it will provide [...]
* Humanitarian workers call for accountability for crimes
* 110,000 return to homes in volatile Rwanda border zone
* Concerns about cross-border expulsions in Angola, Congo
Some 5,400 women have reported being raped this year in one province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said last week.
Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman for the U.N. Office for the [...]
Most counsellors in NZ rape crisis centres and other non-medical work have been shut out of fast-track claims for sexual abuse victims under the final version of new rules.
As indicated in earlier drafts by the Accident Compensation Corporation, it will pay for counselling for sexual abuse victims from Monday only when they have a mental [...]
At an 8 October gathering of Guinean women beaten or raped during the recent military attack on demonstrators, all wept as one young woman presented torn clothes soldiers had ripped off of her.
“We all collapsed in tears. It is unspeakably painful what happened here in Guinea,” Aïssata Daffe of the Union des Forces Républicaines political [...]
In response to the petition advocating the release of Roman Polanski, who was arrested in Switzerland after fleeing US justice for over 30 years despite pleading guilty in court to the rape of a thirteen-year-old girl in 1978, we, the undersigned, express our:
- support for the authorities involved in efforts to make Polanski finally face [...]
Widespread use of DNA evidence by law enforcment is helping to secure more convictions
The number of reported rapes in the US has dropped to its lowest level in two decades as the increasing use of DNA has helped identify attackers and encouraged prosecutors to pursue more convictions.
FBI statistics show that rapes notified to the [...]
With US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the chair, the UN Security Council on 30th September 2009 unanimously adopted a resolution to halt the use of sexual violence as a tactic of war.
Resolution 1888, sponsored by 61 countries, reiterated the 15-member body’s “demand for the complete cessation by all parties to armed conflict of [...]
Darfuri refugee women and girls face high levels of rape and other violence on a daily basis both inside and outside refugee camps in eastern Chad, despite the presence of UN security forces, a new Amnesty International report reveals.
In ‘No place for us here: Violence against refugee women in eastern Chad’, Amnesty International documents [...]
Successive governments of Bosnia and Herzegovina have failed to provide justice for thousands of women and girls who were raped during the 1992-1995 war, a new Amnesty International report reveals.
Launching at a press conference in Sarajevo, Amnesty’s 82-page report, Whose Justice? The women of Bosnia and Herzegovina are still waiting, details how thousands of rape [...]
Last month Poland approved a law making chemical castration mandatory for paedophiles in some cases, sparking criticism from human rights groups.
Under the law, sponsored by Poland’s center-right government, paedophiles convicted of raping children under the age of 15 years or a close relative would have to undergo chemical therapy on their release from prison.
“The purpose [...]
‘All kinds of trade-offs go on behind the scenes, which is the way they’ve done politics for the last three decades’
An in-depth investigation into the murky process that led to the enactment of Afghanistan’s controversial “rape” law reveals a porous, dysfunctional and corruptible parliamentary system.
But the system is at least functioning, it shows, a fact [...]
Themba Mvubu, 24, from Kwathema, was found guilty of murdering, robbing and being an accessory to the rape of 31-year-old Eudy Simelane.
Activists at the magistrates court in Delmas, Mpumalanga province, hailed the judgment as “extremely important” in drawing attention to cases of murder and so-called “corrective rape” against lesbians in South Africa.
Simelane was one of [...]
From Monrovia’s highest hill, the long sliver of Atlantic Ocean shoreline at the mouth of the Mesurado River, with its aqua blue waves, golden sand and wooden fishing boats, looks like paradise. But this is West Point; one of Monrovia’s most impoverished and polluted slums, and it is not paradise.
It is a world where justice [...]
Human rights groups are calling on the Afghan government to adopt a new law which would more clearly differentiate rape, a criminal offence, from consensual adultery, considered a serious crime in the country.
“Rape and adultery are two different issues and should be separate in law. Rape is an act of violence and coercion and the [...]
Throughout the month of September, public transit users will receive an important education on the realities of child sex slavery in America. This week, Shared Hope International will unveil End Child Sex Trafficking: Kids are NOT for Sale in D.C., a campaign that aligns with D.C. Human Trafficking Awareness month. Bright yellow signs in Metro [...]
Nearly a year after, a government task force report has confirmed that Penan women and children in Sarawak were raped and sexually abused by timber workers.
The report by the national task force set up in October last year also found troubling incidents of children as young as 10 years old being sexually abused by the [...]
“Women are getting killed in the Western Cape,” says Ndumie Funda, who runs LulekiSizwe in her “cabin” in the township of Gugulethu near Cape Town.
The project is named after her late fiancée, Nosizwe Nomsa Bizana, who was gang-raped by five men and subsequently succumbed to crypto meningitis, and Bizana’s friend Luleka Makiwane, who contracted HIV [...]
Recent postings- “Women Will Benefit From Secularism” – Nawal El-Saadawi
- ‘Polygamy club’ draws criticism in Indonesia
- Prostitution laws protect dignity and equality says lawyer in Ontario
- Rhode Island to close loophole which allows indoor prostitution
- 52 children rescued in nationwide sex-trafficking raids in the US
- Malawi health workers grapple with rising incidence of rape
- Israel’s first multi-disciplinary rape crisis center opens at Hadassah
- Libya should drop charges against journalist who reported allegations of sexual harassment
- Women’s and gay rights violated under guise of counter-terrorism says UN envoy
- Iceland leads Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2009
- new on womensgrid
- Women’s Theatre in the 1970s and 80s
- Volunteer Befrienders (Female) – Hibiscus – London
- Welsh Women’s Aid Trustee advert
- Reclaim the Night Leeds 28th November 2009
- Behind Closed Doors to benefit from inaugural event – 14th November 2009 Leeds
- Revival of This Wide Night at Soho Theatre – 24th November to 5th December 2009
- Tribute to Romy Schneider, 20 – 29 November 2009 including double bill of Maidens in Uniforms
- Women’s Films at The We The Peoples Festival 2009 19, 23-30 November 2009
- Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven – 40th Anniversary Reading – 8th November 2009
- Please sign the petition for continuing funding for Karma Nirvana
- new on women in london
- Head of Communications – Women’s Resource Centre – 23rd November 2009
- Mrs Goundo’s Daughter – Free Event – Forward – 7th December 2009
- New European Campaign on FGM – Forward
- FORWARD releases an Information Services and Support Guide for Young People in the UK
- FGM is always with us – experiences perceptions and beliefs of women affected by female genital mutilation in London – Forward
- Are you an London-based IDVA? – GLDVP
- GLDVP Newsletter – November 2009
- British public supports a legal requirement on employers to check they are paying women and men equally poll for Equal Pay Day finds – Fawcett
- Victory as Peers vote for women, not pimps and punters! – Object and Eaves
- 7 vacancies – Solace Women’s Aid – 12th November 2009
Libya should drop charges against journalist who reported allegations of sexual harassment
28 October 2009 in Africa, Government, Media, Opinion Comment, Rape and Sexual Assault
The Libyan government should investigate allegations of sexual harassment in a state-run residence for women who had been orphaned instead of charging the journalist who reported the story with criminal defamation – Human Rights Watch
Mohamed al-Sareet, a Libyan journalist, wrote on Jeel Libya, an independent news website based in London, about a rare demonstration in [...]